How do your protect your CDs? Scratched Teaching Textbooks! Ugh.

[TundraAcademy]

Hi,

I was wondering how everyone is protecting their expensive CD curriculums? My son scratched a Teaching Textbooks CD and I read that it will cost us $15 to replace. Ugh...not what I was hoping for after spending $145 for them new. Is it possible to copy them for use and save the originals? Any ideas?

 

Thanks,

Wendy

[Ibbygirl]

Hi,

I was wondering how everyone is protecting their expensive CD curriculums? My son scratched a Teaching Textbooks CD and I read that it will cost us $15 to replace. Ugh...not what I was hoping for after spending $145 for them new. Is it possible to copy them for use and save the originals? Any ideas?

 

Thanks,

Wendy

 

I know there are places you can take it to get the scratches buffed out. I know that Game Stop does it for game cd's (not sure if they can do a full sized cd or not though).

 

For me, I always make a backup in the computer of things because I KNOW my son is going to destroy them.

[delaney]

We have a place here as well that cleans them for $5. I would be more than happy to get it done if you want to mail them to me. They have saved some REALLY bad discs!

[carlamom2ansnm]

If it's already scratched, try car wax! It's done wonders for some of our dvd's!

[TundraAcademy]

Oh, thanks for all the tips. I hadn't thought of buffing them out. I will check out what we have around here. I'm also going to look into copying them so I won't have to deal with this again!

[Lizzie in Ma]

You can try burning it to the computer.

Sometimes you can rub crayon on a scratch and rub it in with your finger and it will work again. Hope you can get it to work without replacing it.

[kitten18]

I bought a buffer from Amazon. It has saved a few game CDs and several movies.

 

http://www.amazon.com/SkipDr-Manual-Disc-Repair-System/dp/B0015ACUKC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336676714&sr=8-1

[TundraAcademy]

I'll have to check out the buffer, we have a lot of CDs around the house that could use some repairs.

 

I'm thinking that maybe I should try to copy all the disks next time and just let my son use the copies so I can still sell the originals when he's done.

[Beetkvass]

Hi,

I was wondering how everyone is protecting their expensive CD curriculums? My son scratched a Teaching Textbooks CD and I read that it will cost us $15 to replace. Ugh...not what I was hoping for after spending $145 for them new. Is it possible to copy them for use and save the originals? Any ideas?

 

Thanks,

Wendy

 

Yeah, I read it costs $15 too. But I am dealing with Teaching Textbooks right now and they are refusing to stand by their policy of replacing my one scratched CD for $15. It seems my CD's I bought only 2.5 yrs ago are outdated. I am being expected to send them $40 PLUS all 4 of the CD's I have before they will replace the product.

 

They have made it clear that they do not care at all that the $120 I invested in the program is totally and completely useless unless I get that CD replaced. Our computer died and we replaced it so without disc 1 to download the program none of the discs work. We can't even continue our studies. They are trying to selling me on the replacement value of selling it down the road with the updated CD's. Seriously?!?! What I have now is totally useless. My hopes for down the road are not optimistic. I am not remotely impressed. And the guy I'm dealing with in customer service clearly can't even be bothered to read my emails through all the way.